Although it was aquired by Mad Catz, Saitek has managed to reborn an icon among the keyboards and release the Saitek III keyboard. The third Saitek series is a sleek backlit multimedia keyboard with touch-sensitive lighting and volume controls, and adjustable, multi color backlighting shortcut keys. The backlight of the keyboard can vary in colors depending on the user's preferences. Once you made some changes to the keyboard's color or its settings they'll remain unchanged after system reboot. This USB 2.0-connected peripheral also comes with a 2-stage height adjustment and removable wrist rest increase comfort, laser-etched keys, a head phone and microphone audio ports. There is no word on pricing or availability yet.

I have the eclipse II as well, the reason i bought it was the standard (aka old school) key layout, and standard form factor.

This is becoming larger and more complex, therefore moving away from the appeal of the earlier models. side buttons are a terrible idea, dont they realise what happens if you attempt to move your keyboard, or your mouse cord bumps against them? gah.

I will never buy another eclipse keyboard. Saitek had a garbage design and never fixed ti with the eclipse II. I went through returning 3 of them under warranty and none of them fixed the issue until I went in opened the keyboard and fixed it myself. Absolute garbage IMO. Hopefully they finally fixed it.

I will never buy another eclipse keyboard. Saitek had a garbage design and never fixed ti with the eclipse II. I went through returning 3 of them under warranty and none of them fixed the issue until I went in opened the keyboard and fixed it myself. Absolute garbage IMO. Hopefully they finally fixed it.

ah, did you ahve the issue where the plastic inner layer kept shifting around? i had that with mine as well. I too, had to fix it myself. Didnt void the warranty or anything, so i had no problems doing so, and have had no problems since.

I feel sad that saitek seem to be following the path of the G15, who the hell do i go to for compact LED keyboards now?

ah, did you ahve the issue where the plastic inner layer kept shifting around? i had that with mine as well. I too, had to fix it myself. Didnt void the warranty or anything, so i had no problems doing so, and have had no problems since.

I feel sad that saitek seem to be following the path of the G15, who the hell do i go to for compact LED keyboards now?

I actually quite like it. My current Genius keyboard has almost the same layout and it works flawlessly. No need to worry about those side buttons, you can ignore them quite easily if you want and they wont get pressed by mistake.

Anyword on the price? Personally I like comfortable keyboards, which is why I havent exactly bought me a gaming keyboard yet. This with its touch sensitive controls, reminds me of my wifes HP laptop. I love the volume control on it

ah, did you ahve the issue where the plastic inner layer kept shifting around? i had that with mine as well. I too, had to fix it myself. Didnt void the warranty or anything, so i had no problems doing so, and have had no problems since.

I feel sad that saitek seem to be following the path of the G15, who the hell do i go to for compact LED keyboards now?

They already did, they just kept the name. G15 rev1 is better than rev2 though, IMO. It's black/blue instead black/orange, has a bigger screen, the screen has tilt adjust and can flip closed, and there's more "g-keys".